Video: Soldier finds his fortune in coming home

SPRING HILL, La. — Never — not on his best day, or worst — did Kyle Burleson ever imagine being so crippled, or fortunate.

"It's kind of overwhelming, I guess," he says.

Growing up, hunting in the Louisiana woods nearby, or playing high school football, he wanted nothing more than to enlist in the Army. And he served with distinction in Iraq until August 2004, when a sniper's bullet shattered his spine.

"It was hard for them to tell me he would be paralyzed, forever," recalls his wife, Kristi.

Just 21, with two children, Burleson was now a quadriplegic.

"I didn't do anything special," he says. "I just got shot."

But this winter, convinced Burleson is special, a group which relies on donations to build homes for severely wounded veterans began building a home for him.